"The language scar
Sunday, July 16, 2006
The project to form a language and a culture in Turkish political history has always been part of the larger nation-making project and, consequently, debates over language in Turkey are always political and ideological. Even if the topic of discussion is on slang words, the issue always becomes political. In this respect, the culture model in Turkey is closer to the French-Continental Europe tradition rather than the Anglo-Saxon one. The process led to centralization and homogenization, with an elite forcing it onto the public. "
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